Lawyers: practice of the profession on a permanent basis

The ESC endorsed these goals and agreed in principle with the proposal as a whole, subject to the reservations expressed below. It pointed out that the Commission’s proposal for a directive differed in essential points from the CCBE proposal in that it: a) set a time limit on the right of establishment under the home-country professional title, and b) generally dispensed with an aptitude test for lawyers wishing to be fully integrated in the host Member State (Article 10(1)). The ESC wholly shared the concerns expressed in the Sutherland Report regarding the whole system of justice in the EU.